From NPR:
Kathleen Turner has been a film star and stage star, vamp and tramp, comic and deadly. It’s been a long, dramatic arc for Turner, whose voice now is both as warm and furry as whiskey and as hard as the shot glass that holds it.
For the past six weeks at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., she’s been playing the lead character in Mother Courage and her Children, the 1939 play by Berthold Brecht. Mother Courage is a war profiteer and a mother, a peasant without a country trying to calculate her chances of survival.
Brecht’s play is considered one of the great dramas of all time, a staunchly anti-war broadside that showcases one of theater’s great female protagonists. NPR’s Jacki Lyden spoke with Turner about tackling the massive part in an ambitious in-the-round production — and about her long career.
Read more and listen to the interview here.
